Europe is a continent, according to it, a geographical, cultural and political concept. But above all it is a dream, a utopia, a kind of paradise for the migrant who wants to move from other parts of the world.

Tximi is not a migrant, his mother of Andoain, his father of Morocco, lived in France until the age of twelve, in Donibane and in Baiona. And yet, “a Moor, you would think, why was there a malign environment on top of that.” Because it is known that it is trying to alert those who want to go to Europe, which is not so much, that it has little of a promised territory. But Saki gets into a business and they have to bring people down. “Do you want to come with me in the van?”

In particular, it is a journey of trucks that the book captures, with the help of passersby, but that is carried out from Euskal Herria to Morocco, with the intention of making the turn loaded with human gender. We will know the adventures of this journey, therefore, curious, not boring, narrated by Tximi, with a very personal voice that keeps reading all the time that the narrative lasts. And all in a very good way, in the good sense of the word, of course, in the movies. To what extent the reader’s previous experience is important, the film Oreina by Koldo Almandoz, more specifically the character of Khalil, the twin brother of the protagonist of Sastre’s novel, has come to my mind time and again. “But you’re also going to make a movie,” Saki will tell Tximi at some point. If Almandoz had a creative dryness, adaptation to Leuropa would not be the worst option.

Published in 2002, when the theme of this so-called new migration barely appeared among us, so many years later the present is still impressive, both for themes and novels. And without wanting to overtake things too much, he ends up leaving us an exciting thesis, by the mouth of Sussu, a half-crazy, half-visionary character: that the earth is not abandoned so easily, that you may want to go through heaven to where you don't know. “Here’s paradise!” I read it was probably Sastre's best job. If that is not the case, it is certainly not far away.